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Posted by Graham Davidson
Graham Davidson
Courses Plus Student 14,966 Points

Special Characters

Morning.

Just a quick question which has been bugging me for some time. I am going back to basics on Treehouse and doing some of the first HTML courses. So the question is about Special Characters. If I am using utf-8 do I need to write a & or & the same kind of question applies to double and single quotes as well a host of other characters I can think of.

Thanks in advance

2 Answers

Ryno Botha
Ryno Botha
Courses Plus Student 4,055 Points

I hope I understood the question xD

Well yes, you have use "Numerical HTML Encoding Of The Unicode Character"

But I saw sometimes you don't have to, you can simply use &.

Just try it out every time and see how it looks in the Browser.

Check:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/436615/when-should-one-use-html-entities

http://utf8-chartable.de/unicode-utf8-table.pl?utf8=oct&unicodeinhtml=dec&htmlent=1

http://www.w3schools.com/charsets/ref_html_utf8.asp

Hope it was your question xD

Graham Davidson
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Graham Davidson
Courses Plus Student 14,966 Points
Graham Davidson
Graham Davidson
Courses Plus Student 14,966 Points

Thanks for that Ryno it certainly does shed some light on the situation. Particularly the stackoverflow post.

G

Ryno Botha
Ryno Botha
Courses Plus Student 4,055 Points

No Problem x) glad I could help ^^